Alexander O. Anderson

Alexander Outlaw Anderson (10 November 1794-23 May 1869) was a US Senator from Tennessee (D) from 26 February 1840 to 3 March 1841 (succeeding Hugh Lawson White and preceding Spencer Jarnagin).

Biography
Alexander Outlaw Anderson was born in Jefferson County, Tennessee in 1794, and he served in the US Army during the War of 1812, serving under Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans in 1815. Later that year, he became a lawyer in Dandridge, Tennessee, and he became a US district attorney in West Florida. He went on to serve in the US Senate from 1840 to 1841, and he later headed an overland company and moved to California. In 1852, he served in the California Senate, and as an Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court from 1852 to 1853. He died in Knoxville, Tennessee in 1869.